Episode 748: Is Your Fridge Smarter Than You? The Rise of Kitchen AI

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On This Day In History for July 17, 2024

This is the 199th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining in 2024.

• It was on this date in 1850, that Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed.
• Also today in 1867, Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
• 125 years ago today, NEC Corporation was organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• It was 122 years ago today that Willis Carrier created the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
• That same date in 1938, Douglas Corrigan took off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and became known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
• 69 years ago today, Disneyland was dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• It was 62 years ago today, as part of nuclear weapons testing, the “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller I became the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
• An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations on this date in 1975.
• Also today in 1984, The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
• On July 17, 1989, was the first flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
• It was also this date in 2001 that Concorde was brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
• Also on July 17, 2018, Scott S. Sheppard announced that his team has discovered a dozen irregular moons of Jupiter.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• French mathematician and philosopher, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, born on this date in 1698.
• Born July 17, 1763, German-American businessman and philanthropist John Jacob Astor.
• Georges Lemaître, the Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist was born 130 years ago today.
• Born July 17, 1910, American chemist and microbiologist Frank Olson.
• American physicist and academic, invented the laser, Gordon Gould, born on this date in 1920.
• Russian mathematician and academic, Sergei K. Godunov was born 95 years ago today.
• Born July 17, 1935, Canadian actor and producer Donald Sutherland.
• Also born on that same date in 1954, American author, screenwriter, and producer, J. Michael Straczynski.
• Also turning 69 today is American mycologist and author Paul Stamets.
• Canadian author and activist, Cory Doctorow, born on this date in 1971.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 17, 2024

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News

• Planet smells like rotten eggs, study finds
• Earth’s inner core has slowed so much it’s moving backward, scientists confirm. Here’s what it could mean | CNN
• This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It’s Not Slowing Down : ScienceAlert

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Boris Puts Two Raspberry Pis to Work in This Impressively-Industrial Home Assistant Control Panel – Hackster.io
• Trillionth of a Second Shutter Speed Camera Captures Chaos in Action : ScienceAlert

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